SF Tidbits for 1/20/10

Interviews/Profiles

• The New Yorker interviews Neil Gaiman.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Mark Teppo.
• At Length interviews Jeff VanderMeer and Murder by Death.
• S.J. Chambers interviews Ed “Philly Poe Guy” Pettit.
• BSC Review interviews Charlie Huston (video).
• Small Beer Press interviews Daniel Rabuzzi.
• Sarah A. Hoyt on Robert A. Heinlein.

News

• 2010 RUSA Award Winners include Lamentation by Ken Scholes (fantasy), The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (sf) and Last Days by Brian Evenson (horror).
• SFWA Hosting Online Panel Discussion on Google Book Settlement.
• Angry Robot Books signs Gary McMahon.
• Book View Cafe to Partner with Smashwords.
• Realms of Fantasy: One Website Volunteer Needed.

Articles

• Jezebel on Magic Under Glass: The White-Washing Of Young Adult Fiction Continues.
• Ellen Datlow on Another whitewash of a YA novel character’s color.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on Cover Matters.
• Reading in Color on An Open Letter to Bloomsbury Kids USA. Other Publishing Houses Take Note. (via Tansy Rayner Roberts)
• Janet Chui on Even dragons can be whitewashed.
• Sean Wallace on The Dragon and the Stars anthology Cover and Poul Anderson’s Flandry and T&A.
• N.K. Jemisin on Why I Think RaceFail Was The Bestest Thing Evar for SFF.
• Sheila Finch on The Magi’s Starship.
• P.N. Elrod on Why I hate PublishAmerica — vomit alert. RANT alert.
• Angela Slatter on Saturday is Aurealis Day.
• Amy Sterling Casil on Rules For Children’s Writing in 1954.
• Janet Reid on What you need before you query.
• Rachelle Gardner on Word of Mouth – Who Knew?
• Jason Sanford on A flash response to a flash fiction rant.
• Niki Bruce on Blending East with West.
• Juliet E. McKenna on Blood in the Water? Where does it come from?
• Paul S. Kemp on Why I write tie-in.
• Cat Rambo on The Network Around Us.
• Jim C. Hines on In Defense of Criticism.
• Shawn Speakman on The Lesson I Learned From George R. R. Martin.
• Erin Evans on Outlining for Non-Outliners: An Outline.
• Juliette Wade on The Power of Culture.
• The Book Publicity Blog on Aging publicity practices to jettison for the new decade.
• Janice Hardy on The Back (Story) of Our Lives.
• Eric Rosenfield on Fan Service.
• Dan Abnett on Somebody else’s blog, somebody else’s universe…
• Pimp My Novel on A Word on the MaFiA.
• Chrispher Paul Carey on The Expresso Book Machine.
• Karen L. Newman on Why Horror Can’t Often Compete with Science Fiction and Fantasy in Multi-Genre Magazines.
• Guardian Book Blog In praise of trilogies.
• Biology in Science Fiction looks at (Bio)Chemistry in the Movies.
• Bruce Campbell plans My Name Is Bruce sequel.
• Nick Nadel lists Five Dos and Don’ts for Rebooting Spider-Man.
• Paul Levinson on Countdown to Lost Finale Season.
• Humor: Final Season Of Lost Promises To Make Fans More Annoying Than Ever.
  
• Fox is developing a U.S. version of Torchwood.
• Paul Abbamondi’s countdown of The Top Hundred Speculative Fiction Magazines Covers.continues…[via Jim Steel]
• SciFi Now lists 10 of the best sci-fi sidekicks.
• Publishers Weekl

  y on The Big Graphic Novels of 2010.

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2. SF Tidbits for 1/28/06
3. SF Tidbits for 2/9/06
4. SF Tidbits for 4/28/09
5. SF Tidbits for 9/12/06

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